Posted on Dec 19, 2012 | Comments Off on Raw Milk Dairy Organic Pastures Sues FDA Over Ban On Selling Foodborne Illnesses Across State Lines
When does a business that has carefully positioned itself as more natural and wholesome and healthy and not at all like Big Ag suddenly look a lot like Big Ag?When the FDA tells them they can only make people sick in their own state. Then the corporate lawyers come out in force.Organic Pastures, America’s largest raw milk dairy and cause of numerous recalls just in the last year, would like to...
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Posted on Dec 18, 2012 | Comments Off on The Solar Power Backlash
In Europe, Spain and Germany, whose populations bought into the 'subsidize legacy technology now and it will be cheaper later' myth, there is a backlash against solar power. Politicians are seeing the financial numbers through a prism of reality and cutting subsidies, which means big companies no longer see it as worthwhile.
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Posted on Dec 18, 2012 | Comments Off on The Solar Power Backlash
In Europe, Spain and Germany, whose populations bought into the 'subsidize legacy technology now and it will be cheaper later' myth, there is a backlash against solar power. Politicians are seeing the financial numbers through a prism of reality and cutting subsidies, which means big companies no longer see it as worthwhile.
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Posted on Dec 18, 2012 | Comments Off on Wikipedia Founder Jimmy Wales Ironically Objects To Accurate Online Statements About Him
If we were to tell Jimmy Wales that the Science 2.0 entry is an unmitigated pile of garbage written by someone who either knows nothing about Science 2.0 that he didn't Google in 5 seconds (I say 'he' because the place is legendarily hostile to women so it unlikely to be a 'she') he would simply respond that we should fix it. Well, his own site does not work that way. The person who knows...
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Posted on Dec 17, 2012 | Comments Off on Oceana Reveals Widespread Seafood Fraud In New York City
New York City is willing to hire thousands to make sure you can't buy a Big Gulp but actual fraud is no big worry.The group Oceana did genetic testing of foods labeled at restaurants and found that every one of 16 sushi bars they investigated sold the researchers mislabeled fish. 39 percent of the seafood from 81 grocery stores and restaurants was not what the establishment claimed it was.Is this...
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